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Anelosimus terraincognita

Anelosimus terraincognita
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Anelosimus
Species:
A. terraincognita
Binomial name
Anelosimus terraincognita

Anelosimus terraincognita is a species of spider discovered in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, with no associated information regarding its collector or the location of discovery. Males possess a corkscrew-shaped embolus, a characteristic unique to Australasian species within the genus Anelosimus. This species is known only from the holotype specimen, which has a total length of 2.2 millimetres (0.087 in). It is named after the cartographic Latin phrase terra incognita, meaning unknown land.[1]

References

  1. ^ Agnarsson, Ingi (2012). "Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 26: 1–16. doi:10.1071/is11039.


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